Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 11, sentence 73

A violent storm arose, and with the vessel in great danger of sinking, the one in the stern inquired of the pilot which of the two ends of the ship would go down first.

Who acts: violent storm, great danger, pilot · What happens: arise, sink, inquire, go down · To what, where: vessel, great danger, stern

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (violent storm, great danger, pilot), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 storm	det
2	violent	violent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 storm	amod
3	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 arose	nsubj
4	arose	arise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 vessel	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 vessel	cc
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 vessel	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 vessel	det
9	vessel	vessel	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 arose	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 danger	case
11	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 danger	amod
12	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 vessel	nmod
13	of	of	SCONJ	_	14 sinking	mark
14	sinking	sink	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 danger	acl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 one	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 one	det
17	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 vessel	appos
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 stern	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 stern	det
20	stern	stern	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 one	nmod
21	inquired	inquire	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 stern	acl
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 pilot	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 pilot	det
24	pilot	pilot	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 inquired	obl
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 go	nsubj
26	of	of	ADP	_	29 ends	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 ends	det
28	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 ends	nummod
29	ends	end	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 go	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 ship	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 ship	det
32	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 go	obl
33	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 go	aux
34	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 pilot	acl:relcl
35	down	down	ADV	_	34 go	advmod
36	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	34 go	advmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 arose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	arise	past	a violent storm	the vessel	great danger			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location vessel=Theme
2	sink	gerund	great danger not said here					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	inquire speech: other	participle		the stern not said here			of the pilot	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent of pilot=Recipient
4	go down	would	the pilot			of the two ends	of the ship; down, first property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 21 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/13/73/